Translation
Jew, Jewish person
Word origin
From the European family of German Jude and Polish Żyd, going back through Latin Iudaeus and Greek Ioudaios to Hebrew Yehudi, 'a person of Judah'. The adjective is juda and the religion judismo.
- Origin
- Hebrew Yehudi, via Greek and Latin
- Root
- Yehudi
- English cognates
- Judaic, Judaism
Examples
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Many Jews lived in that town.
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The old Jew was a wise man.
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The Jew read the holy book.
Zamenhof was himself a Jew from Bialystok, and early Esperanto literature is full of the word for that reason. The people are juda ; the martial art judo is a different word entirely, with a ĵ.
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